Apprentice Finale!

The Apprentice Final tonight was very entertaining and a little bit surprising in a way too.  The two finalists Chris and Stella, were given the task of creating a brand new alcoholic drink to bring to the over 25 year olds market.  With the help of some ex-apprentices (notice the distinct absence of Stuart here!) the two finalists had a surprisingly good level support from their team mates, with little bitching, apart from during Stella's pitch rehearsal.  But both of them struggled to come up with their ideas initially, admittedly though both of them were quite good, although I think Chris's idea of an unusual design of drink bottle (shaped like a sharp pyramid type murder weapon!) and the idea of a Prism showing different sides to your life was very innovative.  Stella's advert was a little bit bland with her voice over, but during the pitch she did show to be a bit more endearing to the audience, while Chris resorted to his usual dull monotone, he delivered it clearly but it was that one note again, blu blu blu.  Regardless both of them did well in leading their teams and pulling together their ideas.

However the surprise was in the final boardroom decision making, when Stella and Chris had to justify why Lord Sugar should hire them, and ok Chris sounded a bit arrogant in his defence and saying he's outperformed everyone and he's the man they come to for everything.  But Stella in response launched into a rather personal attack on Chris by saying he wasn't passionate about wanting the job and she was, which I thought was really unfair and it also for me it soured Lord Sugar's decision to make Stella the next apprentice.  I would have been a bit more appreciative if Stella didn't make things personal, and I think that really went in Chris's favour when he responded to Stella by saying I didn't talk about you, so keep it to being all about you and not me, he didn't make things personal.  That aside though Stella was a very worthy winner as she worked very hard throughout and performed very well in every task.  But I was gutted for Chris as well, despite his monotone voice and his own big headedness, he is a nice guy and he also showed plenty of flashes of humour and business innovation and creativity, and I was inclined to want to see him as the winner.  But hey ho that's the way it goes. 

So that's it for another series, it was a great one, with plenty of different characters and the legendary arrogance and cockiness of the annoying yet amusing twonk that is Stuart Baggs.  So here's to next year's contestants heading for Lord Sugar's meat grinder.